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JOHANNESBURG – No matter how much the United States continues to emerge as a competitive World Cup nation, there is little doubt that the international perception of American soccer will always be doused with suspicion.

The roots of calling the beautiful game "soccer" started in a surprising place.
(Lars Baron/Getty Images)

Why? Because Americans don’t even call the sport by its proper name, of course. They don’t call it “football.” They call it “soccer.”

In the USA, football is that game that dominates winter Sundays and features Lycra, helmets and men so large they should come with their own zip code.

Elsewhere, football is football. The round-ball sport, the beautiful game, with its biggest prize to be handed out here on July 11.

Soccer? Pah, a silly American term created by a nation that has its own national obsession.

No country has been snootier toward the USA’s use of the term “soccer” than England. Before the Group C opener between the two sides in Rustenburg, the Sun newspaper even ran a spoof front page urging Fabio Capello’s side to win the “soccerball world series.”

But let’s take a halftime break here.

Coupled with their team’s humiliating exit from the World Cup it might be another rude awakening to the Brits that soccer isn’t an American term, it is actually an English one. And it isn’t some modern fad that shows disrespect to the world’s most popular sport, it dates back to the earliest days of the game’s professional history.

Indeed, until the last few decades, even Englishmen would routinely refer to their favorite pastime as soccer, just as often as they would say football.

Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.

“Soccer is a synonym for football,” said Toye, who helped launch the North American Soccer League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for more years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”

To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.

Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”

So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, safe in the knowledge that you’re more in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.

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Wed, 19 May 2010 17:24:16 -0700 The Best Job in the World http://juliehochman.posterous.com/the-best-job-in-the-world-12 http://juliehochman.posterous.com/the-best-job-in-the-world-12

Tourism Queensland's search to find an Island Caretaker, aka explore all the island of the Great Barrier Reef and blog about it. Fml.

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Tue, 11 May 2010 18:19:00 -0700 An update on the Israel vs Lebanon Hummus War http://juliehochman.posterous.com/an-update-on-israel-vs-lebanon-in-the-hummus http://juliehochman.posterous.com/an-update-on-israel-vs-lebanon-in-the-hummus
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Lebanon in the lead with 11.5 tons of hummus

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First, who know there was a World Database of Happiness measuring the arcs of our smiles? And second, I'm interested to see the 2009-2010 results.

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:52:00 -0700 RoboTeach http://juliehochman.posterous.com/south-korean-robot-english-teachers-are-go-po http://juliehochman.posterous.com/south-korean-robot-english-teachers-are-go-po

"A shortage of English teachers has compelled South Korea to take the next logical step and plan a $45 million rollout of robotic teaching assistants. That official go-ahead follows several months of robot trials, says based on Korean news reports. But the idea of replacing old fashioned human English teachers has already stirred much debate."

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:34:00 -0700 Heineken to the rescue http://juliehochman.posterous.com/heineken-to-the-rescue http://juliehochman.posterous.com/heineken-to-the-rescue

How to make a first time experience a lasting one, per Heineken. As part of their "Made to Entertain" campaign, Heineken surprised football fans with the game of a lifetime.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:28:00 -0800 Brilliant TV Spot from W+K Amsterdam http://juliehochman.posterous.com/brilliant-545 http://juliehochman.posterous.com/brilliant-545

 

2009 Honda Insight "Let it Shine" commercial. You've probably all seen this already, but it still gets me excited. Yes, advertising gets me excited.

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:34:00 -0800 The Designer Mini http://juliehochman.posterous.com/mini-lets-artist-krink-all-over-its-car-autob http://juliehochman.posterous.com/mini-lets-artist-krink-all-over-its-car-autob
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Although the Mini is reasonably priced and completely attainable in this lifetime, the same might not be true for me and the Mini Cooper couture line. Designed bKrink, an art supply line, the above car was artistically struck in Hamburg, Germany and is considered a piece of art. I consider it my motivation to work hard. 

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:33:59 -0800 I <3 Typography http://juliehochman.posterous.com/i-3-typography http://juliehochman.posterous.com/i-3-typography
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Ben & Jerry's print by Ogilvy Singapore

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:18:00 -0800 UK mascots held ransom to raise $$ for special olympics http://juliehochman.posterous.com/get-your-mascot-back http://juliehochman.posterous.com/get-your-mascot-back
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:56:00 -0800 The Brits do it best http://juliehochman.posterous.com/the-brits-do-it-best http://juliehochman.posterous.com/the-brits-do-it-best
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Restaurant / Art Gallery / Coolest Place Ever

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The Night Cafe was painted by... Franz Marc, Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Baptiste Perroneau or Georges Seurat? Get the answer right and rice is donated to the hungry by the World Food Programme.

Various subject tests allow site visitors to answer an endless series of multiple choice questions, and 10 grains of rice are donated for every correct answer.

Plus, it's a pretty sweet satisfication (or ego boost) when you make it to the 50th level in vocab.

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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0800 Tropicana Spot from BBDO Toronto http://juliehochman.posterous.com/tropicana-spot-from-bbdo-toronto http://juliehochman.posterous.com/tropicana-spot-from-bbdo-toronto

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